My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.

Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.

I rode, and I rode, and I rode. I rode like I had never ridden, punishing my body up and down every hill I could find. I rode when no one else would ride.

It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.

I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.